Great company if you're not looking to be challenged - Anonymous employee Emerson Employee Review

3.0
Apr 20, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Stability - Emerson only rarely lays people off and even then alot of it is voluntary. Flexible schedule - I never had a problem taking off work.

Cons

They like many big companies promote the incompetence, because they don't want to lose their best works. Their Raise program is abysmal they only give managers 3.1% of their salary pools to give out raises. This means that the often the highest paid person in the group gets a smaller raise so that manager can give other team members better raises. IT Shared Services - If they where a hosting company like they claim they want to be for internal divisions they'd be bankrupt 10yrs before they started. Worse run datacenter I have ever seen. This is even more sad because our PM datacenter in Austin is run wonderfully. The main problem is unmotivated workers and understaffing I believe. Finally and the biggest issue for me is unmotivated workers. Because it's so hard to get fired here most workers are as unmotivated as Government workers. Things that get you fired at most companies are easily over looked at Emerson. Pretty sure I'd have to steal alot from the company or sexually assault someone to get fired.

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Cons

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Pros

Great immediate supervisor and their boss. Made top-down communications tolerable. Great co-workers and great collaboration that lifted the entire team.

Cons

(1) RIF based on tenure, not performance. HR is too powerful a department, and everyone fears it. (2) Tenure made you lazy, killed creativity, initiative, and promoted a "yes" culture. (3) During COVID layoffs, CEO pay went from $3.7 million to $15.x million, while employees endured 25% furloughs for 3 months, and management 10% reduction in pay for 6 months - explain how that is reasonable. (4) CEO declared DEI as the way forward for career mobility, and a lot of young, promising talent walked out the door, including DEI-qualified minorities. (5) I was one of those minorities.

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